The Mo Ibrahim Foundation was launched in October 2006 to support good governance and great leadership in Africa.
It was founded by Dr. Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese philanthropist and businessman who founded telecommunications company Celtel International in 1998.
Dr. Ibrahim is the Chair of the Board. Other Board members are Lord Simon Cairns, Mamphela Ramphele, Ketumile Masire, Mary Robinson, Salim Ahmed Salim, Nathalie Delapalme and Hadeel Ibrahim.
The Foundation’s Secretariat is based in London.
Read more about Mo Ibrahim Foundation: Goals, The Ibrahim Prize For Achievement in African Leadership, The Ibrahim Index of African Governance, The Ibrahim Discussion Forum, Capacity Building Programmes
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“The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, “built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts.” To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship’s company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)